Romain: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Romain family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Romain by the numbers

In Wikidata, Romain is listed as a French surname. Official name counts are where our Romain file begins.

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Romain, so we research it family by family rather than guess. Romain ranked 10,812 in the 2010 US Census, with 2,946 people answering to the name. From 1891 to 2000, 8,612 births in France were registered under Romain. The name became more frequent over the century. Romain sounds close to Román, Romano and Romani, so it can help to search both.

Get the complete Romain report, with a museum-style coat of arms.